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Modern Art Ships: Corresponding in function to the frigates, sloops, and gun brigs of the age of sail, modern art ships cruisers of various types have stood midway between capital ships and the little vessels of the flotilla. Responding to many of the same innovations as the capital ships, they have undergone a complex evolution since the coining of steam and iron. In 1886, when Baron (later 1st Earl) Brassey began his Naval Annual, the lists of cruising ships showed most of them to be unprotected and almost half of them to be partly or wholly of wood.
2. British ships are in one remarkable venerable-modern art ships family—Cunard. The celebrated Queens, Elizabeth and Mary, hardly need comment. They are the two largest ships ever built, both over 80,000 tons and over 1000 feet in length. They are, of course, floating palaces, with every refinement of luxury and service. They ply to Cherbourg and Southampton. The present Mauretania, not to be confused with her defunct predecessor, the famous four-stacker of the same name, and the Caronia, both of about 35,000 tons, are also superb luxury ships.
He resigned in 1870 on account of his objections to rigged sea-going turret ships which he found to be growing in favor. He sat in Parliament for the Pembroke boroughs 1874-80, for Cardiff in 1880-95 and again 1900-06. In 1886 he was a junior lord of the treasury under Mr. Gladstone. In 1878 he visited Japan on the invitation of the government of that country. He published 'Japan, its History, Traditions and Religions' (1880); 'The Stability of Ships' (1884) ; 'modern art ships Ships of War,' with Admiral Simpson (1888); 'Poems' (1902). |
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